In 1983, long before flashmobs, you had Flashdance.
Not enough? More? Okay:
Flashdance Ending Scene by Flixgr
I cut up my sweatshirts and permed my hair. I was actually built like that...but, oh my, she could dance.
Posted by: Leslie at April 17, 2012 10:50 AMI'll stay with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Posted by: Norm at April 17, 2012 4:14 PMHi, Leslie...How ya doin'?
Posted by: Mumblix Grumph at April 17, 2012 7:10 PMEh, ok, the best, I guess. For my money, though, I prefer Pamela Anderson Lee's opening scene in Barb Wire. WOW!
Posted by: Big Mo at April 17, 2012 8:29 PMDidn't Donald O'Connor dance up and down the wall in "Singing In The Rain", or am I mistaking that for something else?
My memory is notoriously untrustworthy.
Posted by: rickl at April 17, 2012 8:55 PMI am very well, Mr. Grumph. Donald O'Connor danced all over Singing in the Rain, including flipping off a wall, and through... my favorite number.
Posted by: Leslie at April 17, 2012 10:43 PMBig Mo - To me, Ms. Anderson is the personification of many things that are wrong with Hollywood. I appreciate the female form, being a reasonably normal male. Plastic doesn't do anything for me at all. Especially the silicone variety.
Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman? Now you're talking.
Posted by: Fletcher Christian at April 18, 2012 12:46 AMGotta give Gene Kelly some love for "An American in Paris". That guy was cut!
Posted by: Magnolia at April 18, 2012 6:00 AM3:34 in the first video is Obama's dinner.
Can't help it. This stuff writes itself.
Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2012 7:31 PMLook at that. A last view of the Ancient World before Everything Changed. The Internet was already born, tended to in secret by the High Geekdom in Academia, Corporate and Government research labs. Steve Jobs and his gang were furiously building the first Macintosh. The cellular phone had already been invented, and a few Motorola bricks were wandering around, used by pretentious uber early-adopters.
But still. In those days, if you wanted to talk to somebody, you had to pick up the blower, and arrange a meet-up at a local watering hole. Look at all those people, with nothing else to do except talk to each other. Life was so slow-paced and primitive.
They're just like us, but they had no idea what they were missing, and how their lives were about to be profoundly changed.
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